1. Did Holden's judgmental personality effect the way you as a reader might perceive a character? Do you trust his judgements?

I do believe that Holden's judgmental personality effects the way, I, as a reader perceive a character, but more at the start of the book. I didn't expect Holden to have a such a judgmental personality and believed what he was saying. Although by the end of the book, I had grown accustom to his personality. Throughout the novel he is constantly pointing out the wickedness, phoniness, and boring personalities in the people around him and as the book progressed, I realized that all of his judgements may have not be accurate. I would constantly question whether or not the way Holden would perceive someone, would be the way an average person would perceive them. For example, in chapter 3 Holden says, "He was at least a pretty friendly guy, Stradlater. It was partly a phony kind of friendly..." (pg 26) Can we really trust Holden's judgement here? Is Stradlater's friendliness really phony or is that just the way Holden perceives it? In chapter 10, Holden goes to a bar and is again judging people as soon as he steps into the bar. He says, " At the table right next to me, there were these girls around thirty or so. The whole three of them were pretty ugly...(pg 69) I believe that if Holden had not constantly been so overly judgemental in the book I may not have questioned is judgement. Although, as it was a reoccurring theme, I do not trust the way he describes people's looks or personality.